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Images => Nature, Flora, Fauna & Landscapes => Topic started by: David Paterson on September 23, 2015, 11:23:53
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This scene is so near my house, it's irresistible. Awake early, sky a livid red, throw on some clothes, grab cameras, throw cameras and dog into the car, drive (too fast) for three minutes, walk/run for one minute, and I'm shooting just ten minutes after waking up. The beautiful dark red is already gone from the sky but who's complaining? Not me, anyway!
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Serene and beautiful.
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calm and awakening. it's all about composition...
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These scenes make you wake up early.
Lovely to see!
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Impressive, the perfect wake-up-call ;)
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Thanks very much, Elsa, Erik, John and Jakov.
If I hadn't woken up, needing to go to the loo, none of us would ever have seen these! ;D
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You are lucky man!
Beautiful!
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... needing to go to the loo ...
Boy, am i glad you went outside and shot the sun rise ;D
Great set of pictures, i particularly like the fourth one for its composition with the sticks mimicking the background hill/mountain.
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Beautiful! That is a nice place to be retired but not tired.
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Thank you, Andrew, Hans and Peter for your kind comments - greatly appreciated.
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How did you get those red colors in the first one? I've shot sunrises that look similar in color to that, but that is not the way they show up in the images I take. I've tried different WB using Kelving temps and everything.
They really look good.
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How did you get those red colors in the first one? I've shot sunrises that look similar in color to that, but that is not the way they show up in the images I take. I've tried different WB using Kelving temps and everything.
They really look good.
Thanks, Dave. As far as the colours are concerned, I didn't do anything special, and I certainly didn't change the hue of anything - the colours are actually very accurate to what I saw when I was shooting. Dynamic range was extreme so I did a lot of contrast control using selection tools plus "curves" and "shadows/highlights" in Photoshop after raw conversion in Nikon Capture NX2. If you are doing raw conversion in ACR or other software that might give you different results to what I got with NX2.
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Spectacular images Dave, especially #1. You have preserved the colours so well.
Great vantage point - you knew exactly where to go for these!
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Yes, #1 looks the best because not only the color, but this should be THE scene that inspired you.
As for the color, this kind of red, dawn or sunset, would last only a couple of minutes. The satulation usually will be lowered all too quickly.
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Super stuff Dave. Cant get the thought out of my mind of you standing at the lakeside in your pyjamas? ;D
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Thanks for your comments, Mike, Akira and Mike G.
#1 is probably my favourite as well, and I included the others partly to show how the colours changed during 20-30 minutes. A few minutes after shooting #4, more clouds rose to cover the sun and the colours became totally neutral; there was no sunrise.
Mike G - I did actually say "threw on some clothes". though I have been known to wander our garden in the early morning in the manner you suggest; bare feet, too. ::)
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Excellent stuff Dave, I am taking notes...
I assume this is Loch Tay - where and looking in what direction? You know I am planning to camp on its shores in the hope of an opportunity like this one.
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Excellent stuff Dave, I am taking notes...
I assume this is Loch Tay - where and looking in what direction? You know I am planning to camp on its shores in the hope of an opportunity like this one.
Thanks, Simone. It is Loch Tay - the part known as "the head of the loch" (in other words, the opposite end from where the loch is drained by a river; in this case the R. Tay). The images are looking a little north of east; the brightest part of the sky is nearly due east. The 4 shots were taken along a stretch of shoreline about 0.5km long - there are plenty of good tent sites along it.